1. Open Contracting Partnership
UNCAC Implementation Review Group Opening up procurement Alice GarTland #opencontracting
Open Contracting Partnership

2. U
US$9,500,000,000,000,000

3. …it was only a small change in the technical specifications…

4. A focus on results Four key areas: Value for money Integrity
Fairness & a level playing field
Effective service delivery

5. Better ways of working Multi-stakeholder collaboration
Constructive engagement
Working across entire contracting chain
User friendly data (machine readable)
Capacity building of stakeholders
Tool development & adaptation
Institutional mechanisms for feedback
Innovation

7. Impact on deals:
Savings of 13%
Competition up 33%

8. Open Contracting Data Schema
Planning
Tender
Award
Contract
Implementation
Contract Record
An open data schema describing how to release documents & data at each stage of a contracting process as machine readable, extensible, user friendly data

9. Progressive implementation. It’s not pass or fail.

10. Apps for business in Paraguay

11. Czech Republic Comparison of procurement entities

12. Tracking the Telecom PPP in Mexico

13. Identify “red flags” or “key risk indicators” such as patterns of overpricing, collusive bidding
Needs structured information on key dates, identifiers for entities (incl bidders), cost estimates, award data

14. National implementation

15. Leadership & next steps
Default is changing:
Anti Corruption Summit 2016: 40 Countries proposed
‘open-by-default’ approach to share information
proactively, unless good reason not to; Time for UNCAC to make the shift to ‘open by default’ too?
UNCAC Review is an opportunity to consider approach in Article 9
Peer review process also opportunity to ask more searching & diagnostic questions?

16. The future is open ! alicemgartland@gmail.com www.open-contracting.org